Easing Off A Bit
Priorities, priorities...
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Rhythm
Can Annie Get Her Groove Back? 2007/2008 is a kind of hiatus for me, with starts and stops all over the place. The watchword seems to be "adapt" - which it has been for quite a while. I can't change the world, or life, or circumstances to suit me, so I'll have to adapt to them. Cha cha cha! Designs Finally New Patterns are UP! I've slowly been compiling new designs and patterns, and finally they're up for sale at my website. I've also added a new look to the page so you can see thumbnails of the designs at a glance. Market With Hope A new book, and it has ONE pattern.. I'll also be devoting a good amount of time to promoting and marketing my new book, Knit with Courage, Live with Hope. It will be available in early September, the official pub date is mid October to co-incide with Multiple Myeloma Awareness Week. I've included the pattern for the Red Carpet Convertible in the book - I'm unleashing it to the greater non-knitting public (and I may scare them silly with it...) Happy Birthday! 1 year since Gerry's stem cell transplant This is what I wrote this time last year: I haven't been doing much lately
besides worrying, teaching and trying
to keep the family on an even keel. No new books on the
horizon,
no new patterns coming out - I'm thinking of it as a temporary, partial
hiatus until life is back into a manageable state.
Gerry's recovery is amazing. He's doing so well, his body is doing everything that we could ask - and more! But he still has so much pain, sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who can see how much it affects him. Gerry ignores the discomfort, and the kids are - well - kids, they aren't supposed to notice the tiny clues that Dad's almost unable to function due to pain. So that leaves me to be the bad guy - the person who says, "No, that's enough, we can't do any more right now..." And in my case, right now, that means cutting back on my teaching. Aside from Gerry, I also have another dear, close relative who seems to be entering the final stage of her battle with breast cancer. Another reason to cut back on my travel and teaching. Or, as my mother would say, "This is why we save money."  |
Knit
with Courage, Live with Hope
10,000 Lakes – One Diagnosis No one expects to be told they have a terminal cancer at age 48, especially not the month they’ve moved their family half way across the country from New Jersey to St. Paul. As Gerry Landy’s back pain worsened, the phrase “Multiple Myeloma” crept into his family’s consciousness, threading through every part of their new Minnesota existence. This memoir of a one family’s year draws the separate strands of their struggles, victories, and small joys together into a compelling and encouraging narrative. We can’t choose the disease, but we CAN choose hope.  Gerry, post transplant, September 2007  Gerry & Atticus resting on vacation in August, 2008 |
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